Langezijds

prof.dr. K. Pfeffer (Karin)

Full Professor
ITC-SCI-PLAN
Langezijds 1430
+31534897422
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Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • Urban Areas
    • Economic and Social Development
    • Governance

  • Computer Science

    • User

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • India
    • Investigation
    • Area
    • Metropolitan Area

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Ancillary activities

  • Municipality of EnschedeScientific Board participation
  • Urban Studies Foundation, Glasgow, UKTrustee
  • ARLMember of ARL (Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibnitz Association
  • NWOWetenschappelijk Adviescollege (NWO)

I am a geographer and holding a chair in Infrastructuring Urban Futures at the Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management department at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation. Prior to my appointment at ITC in 2017 I worked at the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam (the NL) in various positions, ranging from postdoctoral researcher to Associate Professor. I obtained my PhD in Physical Geography from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. I was vice-dean research of the Faculty ITC 2020-2024.

Publications

2026

Cross-sectoral digital planning Drinking Water-Urban Heat-Housing Provision indicators dataset (2026)Data in brief, 64. Article 112310. Cárdenas-León, I., Nourian, P., Koeva, M. N. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.112310Mapping the field of urban infrastructuring: A scoping review (2026)Cities, 169. Article 106529. Bodenstein, C. P. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106529Informal economy notion in creative industry policy: the case of Bandung creative city (2026)International Development Planning Review, 1-39 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Aritenang, A. F., Madureira, A. M., Bustamante Duarte, A. M., Zul Fahmi, F., Iskandar, Z. S., Nurman, A., Pfeffer, K., Ramdan, D. & Safitri, P.https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2025.18

2025

Peri-urban lake ecosystem governance: A systematic inquiry of actor-resource relationships in the peri-urban region of Ahmedabad, India (2025)Journal of environmental policy and planning, 1-31 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Anand, A., Reckien, D., Zeng, Y. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2025.2599279Peri-urban lake ecosystem governance: a systematic inquiry of actor-resource relationships in the peri-urban region of Ahmedabad, India (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Taylor & Francis. Anand, A., Reckien, D., Zeng, Y. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30819454A large-scale dataset for analysing remote working in urban and rural areas across Europe (2025)Scientific Data, 12(1). Article 1681. Fellnhofer, K., Angelidou, M., Flacke, J., Fontanella, L., Fransz, M., Karanfil, Ö., Kelmali, E., Kiran, S., Kolias, P., Kundu, V., Mataftsi, K., Mone, T., Nasi, G., Orer, H. S., Papageorgiou, M., Papanikolaou, P., Pfeffer, K., Istoriou, T., Plastara, D., … Kayı, İ.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05972-zDevelopment of a contextualized spatial network–based walkability (CSNW) index (2025)International journal of urban sustainable development, 17(1), 1-23. Banger, A., Brussel, M. J. G., Grigolon, A. B. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2025.2594254Understanding planning support systems institutionalization in the planning process through actor–network theory: The case of the strategic development framework methodology (2025)ISPRS international journal of geo-information, 14(10). Article 399. Oyeku, D. A., Boerboom, L., Madureira, A. M. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi14100399Inclusive digital planning: Co-designing a collaborative mapping tool to support the planning of accessible public space for all (2025)Computers, environment and urban systems, 121. Article 102310. Flacke, J., Hoefsloot, F. I. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2025.102310A contextualized spatial network-based walkability index (CSWI) for the case study of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.: Expert workshops presentation, and questionnaire (2025)[Other contribution › Other contribution] (Accepted/In press). Banger, A., Pfeffer, K., Grigolon, A. B. & Brussel, M. J. G.

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Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1430
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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